There’s an active phishing campaign targeting UW–Madison email addresses. The attacker offers to provide financial assistance to qualifying employees. Sure signs it’s bogus: misspellings and a link to a non-UW URL.
Cybersecurity News
6/28 Phishing Alert: Subject – “IRS Announces New Programs That Forgives Millions”
There’s an active phishing campaign targeting UW–Madison email addresses. The attacker offers info on a tax-forgiveness program. A sure sign it’s bogus: grammatical error in the subject line.
6/28 Phishing Alert: Subject – “Wisconsin” or “support team”
There’s an active phishing campaign targeting UW–Madison email addresses. The attacker impersonates a UW–Madison sender and offers significant financial relief.
6/21 Phishing Alert: Subject – “UW-Madison Account Update”
There’s an active phishing campaign targeting university faculty, staff and students. The attacker impersonates the UW–Madison “IT Help Desk” and asks the recipient to “update email account.” Don’t click! Details here.
Cybersecurity Forward 2021: Call For Proposals Extended to Jun 13
Help others become more cyber secure by presenting at the 20th anniversary of Cybersecurity Forward! Submit your proposal by Jun 13 to showcase and share your knowledge.
Cybersecurity Awareness Training has begun!
Faculty and staff need to complete their Cybersecurity Awareness Training by Jun 30. All graduate and undergraduate employee and students will take the training in the fall.
Has Your LinkedIn Account Been Exposed?
More than 500 million LinkedIn profiles have been recently scraped, including accounts with @wisc.edu email addresses. Learn what this means and find out if your account was exposed in this or other security breaches.
Mandatory Cybersecurity Awareness Training Coming the Week of Apr 26
The UW–Madison Office of Cybersecurity is rolling out Cybersecurity Awareness Training that must be completed by all faculty and staff (excluding graduate students and undergraduate student employees) by Jun 30.
Looking for some gamification to spice up your life?
How does “gamification” make learning fun, while making you feel good? Why is it important and how is it connected to an upcoming campus rollout?
Our New Year’s Resolution: Improve our IT security posture
We are not immune to things going on in the rest of the world. Criminal hackers are well funded and becoming more sophisticated. So what can IT departments do to be more secure?